Reports circulating about SL delegation to CHOGM are false - PMD

The President’s Media Division (PMD) has refuted the news circulating in certain media outlets, especially social media claiming that more than a hundred delegates accompanied President Maithripala Sirisena in his recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) tour.
 
Issuing a media release the PMD said that various false information is being reported regarding the official delegation accompanying President Maithripala Sirisena. 
 
According to the PMD the President was accompanied by the President’s spouse, his official doctor, Minister Tilak Marapana and his spouse, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, a Language Interpreter and two officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Moreover, print and electronic media personnel of the President’s Media Division and journalists representing private media institutions and few officers of President’s Security Division, who do not belong to the official delegation participated in this tour, the PMD added.

“Despite that, no person was included in the delegation under the expense of the Presidential Secretariat or attended the CHOGM or any meeting held simultaneously,” the PMD said.